Gaylia was born June 29, 1930 in Hockley County. Graduating from Whiteface High School in 1948, she was a cheerleader, a star basketball player, and a football sweetheart (and sometimes boxer). After marrying the captain of the football team, Wade Taylor, Nov. 7, 1947, they were blessed with a son, Ronny, and a daughter, Leslie. After raising her two children, Gaylia completed her A.A. at South Plains College. She worked as a secretary for Whiteface public schools for 25 years, during which her compassion and smile uplifted everyone. She and Wade celebrated 57 years of marriage last November.

Gaylia's devotion to her husband, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren is unequaled. She willingly served as surrogate grandmother to many of her children's and grandchildren's friends, always accepting them as her own. She was a lifelong member of the Whiteface and the Levelland Methodist church, and her love and faith in Jesus Christ inspired all she met.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at Christ United Methodist Church in Levelland with the Rev. D arren Gillespie and the Rev. Liz Sisco officiating. Burial will be in Whiteface Cemetery under direction of Geo. C. Price Funeral Home of Levelland.